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This is what Britain really needs to defend itself – and it doesn’t include spending billions on arms

Spending should be focused on the immediate threats we face: underfunded public services and an escalating climate crisis, says Karen Bell, a professor of social and environmental justice

The Guardian - UK

From a ‘more lethal’ army to extra AI – what’s in Starmer’s strategic defence review?

The Independent looks at the outcome of the strategic defence review

The Independent UK

Growing threats, new weapons, more troops: key points of UK’s defence review

Review says UK must be ready to ‘fight and win’ a full-scale war. Here is a summary of its recommendations

The Guardian - UK

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Key points from Labour's plans to put UK on war-footing

PLANS to boost military spending to put Britain on a war-footing have been unveiled and backed in their entirety by the UK Government.

The National (Scotland)

Starmer vows to make Britain ‘battle-ready’ — but row over funding threatens to derail plans

The long-awaited strategic defence review warned the UK may need to move even more quickly than planned to tackle the ‘pressing and immediate’ threat of Russia

The Independent UK

Pay to hike? Visitors could soon be charged to enter Britain’s oldest national park to plug a devastating drop in funding

Hikers, campers, and runners could be asked to hand over anywhere from 10 pence to £1 per visit to help look after the Peak District National Park

Advnture

Does the key to uniting against divisive politics lie in our personal lives?

Modern Britain is plagued by a sense of disempowerment and political exclusion – a feeling that is, somewhat ironically, shared between groups of people who otherwise feel divided from one another.

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England’s water crisis needs more than just new reservoirs – here’s what will help

England is facing a water crisis. The UK government has just announced plans to fast-track two massive reservoir projects in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, warning that without them, we could run out of drinking water by the mid-2030s. But as a hydrologist who studies Britain’s often erratic weather patterns, I believe…

The Conversation

Colin Henfrey obituary

Other lives: Sociology lecturer at Liverpool University who played a key role in establishing the anti-Pinochet campaign in Britain

The Guardian - UK

Labour insist Keir Starmer to remain in control of nukes as concerns raised

Labour have insisted Britain will retain control over its nuclear weapons after concerns were raised about a new deal being negotiated with America

The National (Scotland)

Voices: Calling David Cameron a ‘man baby’ for resigning over Brexit is childish

COMMENT: The personal barbs in a new, behind-the-scenes memoir offer a fittingly pathetic caricature of the Conservatives’ big beasts, says Sean O’Grady – they are also a reminder of how the party is the biggest Brexit loser of all

The Independent UK

Voices: That’s fighting talk, prime minister – but can you deliver?

COMMENT: In the face of Russian aggression, Keir Starmer says he must ready the country for war by increasing military spending and building a platoon of nuclear submarines – but, as Mark Almond cautions, perhaps the only thing the Ministry of Defence can be guaranteed to produce on time are…

The Independent UK

Labour priorities ... no money for pensioners, but plenty cash for arms firms

KEIR Starmer wants Britain to be a country in a state of “war-fighting readiness”.

The National (Scotland)

Britain is getting a defense boost aimed at sending a message to Moscow, and to Trump

The U.K. will build new nuclear-powered attack submarines and create an army ready to fight a war in Europe as part of a boost to military spending

The Independent UK

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Evening Standard

'We must prepare for conflict,' says Starmer with new weapons to down Putin missiles targeting UK 'homeland'

Launching the Strategic Defence Review in Glasgow, the Prime Minister said it was a ‘moment of danger and threat for our country’

The Independent UK

Britain to ‘send message to Moscow’ with 12 new nuclear-powered submarines

Britain plans to build up to 12 new nuclear-powered attack Submarines amid rising global threats, according to an upcoming defence review by Sir Keir Starmer. The Ministry of Defence will allocate £15bn to develop new warheads for the UK's nuclear deterrent as part of a broader effort to enhance the…

Evening Standard

Biggest shake-up of UK airspace for 70 years to pave way for Heathrow third runway take-off

The reforms could later lead to flying taxis and more use of drones over the capital and other parts of Britain

The Independent UK

How many nuclear submarines does the UK have – and are they ready for war?

Britain currently has a fleet of nine submarines, including four Vanguard vessels armed with the Trident nuclear system

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The Independent UK

Keir Starmer turns to submarines and nuclear warheads to fight new cold war with Russia

Prime minister to unveil highly anticipated review, which defence secretary John Healey said would send ‘a message to Moscow’

The Guardian - UK

Defence review to say UK must be ready to fight a war in Europe or Atlantic

Review will call for ‘war-fighting readiness’ to deal with new threats, though army will not grow before next election

Evening Standard

Britain's Simon Yates secures first Giro d'Italia title after final stage in Rome

Yates is only the third British rider to win the Giro

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s Simon Yates seals Giro d’Italia triumph and banishes pain of 2018

Simon Yates triumphed after the final stage in Rome and added the 2025 Giro d’Italia title to the Vuelta a España he won in 2018

The Guardian - UK

Fairer elections and the threat of Reform UK

Letters: Green MPs Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay, Warren Brown and Stephen Smith respond to George Monbiot’s article on smashing Britain’s two-party system

The Guardian - UK

Ready to ‘enjoy a few beers’ with Nigel Farage, leftwing hero? This is what Labour has left us with

Britain’s most talented opportunist now claims Reform is the ‘party of the workers’. He’s occupying terrain wilfully vacated by Keir Starmer, says author Samuel Earle

Al Jazeera

UK plans $2bn weapons upgrade as Starmer calls for ‘war readiness’

Day before publication of defence strategy review, Keir Starmer says he will ‘restore Britain’s war-fighting readiness’.

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